#34

Tom waits

#35

mental

#36

Sparks

#38

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

#39

U2, Pulp?

#40

Can we include bands that formed in the 70s but didnt release anything until the early 80s?

If so, the clean and nomeansno

#41

Wasn’t their 1st album in 1980 (Iron Maiden). Fair point but I never really think of them as a 70’s band at all.

#42

late 80s/early 90s Wire is pretty awful, guys

#43

Suicide? (Don’t think I’ve listened to any of the 90s albums)

#44

Never considered Pulp to be a 70s band. Did they release anything in the 70s?

#45

In conclusion 70s was nowhere near as good for music compared to 60s, 80s, and 90s. Disco, prog and fuckin’ fm rock - shite.

#46

Kate Bush!

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#47

Ah, a quick google suggests you’re right. I always thought they snuck in at the end of the seventies but apparently not. Fits in with what people were saying upthread about things moving faster back then - Maiden’s first album came out in 1980, and their fifth in 1984. And they changed their singer and drummer in that period. Busy boys.

#48

springsteen? - although admittedly probably his worst decade.

edit: I got tunnel of love mixed up with the next two and thought that was 90s. So really only ghost of tom joad as a great 90s LP. probably a bad example

#49

I enjoyed Blondie’s comeback in the 90s. Maria is a great tune.

Santana have been consistent with their output and went megastar mainstream with Supernatural in 1999. Think of them as a classic 70s band.

#50

The Cure are the first that come to mind, probably because I think of them as being from an earlier era, and a style of music that isn’t often associated with the 90s. Yet they had some very popular 90s material.

Still, as already pointed out, there were only about 13 years between their one album of the 1970s and their first of the 1990s - so, not an incredible feat of longevity on its face. However, in the early 90s, the oldest generations in significant numbers belonged to jazz, not to rock. Which is to say that rock was not, at that point, a music of the establishment. That’s no longer the case.

#51

Robert Wyatt: started in the 60s, but went solo in the 70s. Arguably reached his creative peak in the 90s with ‘Shleep’. Never made a duff record in his entire career.
Also, XTC’s 90s output was uniformly excellent, though they never recaptured their prolific peak in the late 70s when they were cranking out albums faster than a newly married royal produces heirs.

#52

Pat Metheny

#53

Kraftwerk haven’t released anything new since 2003, all remixes and reworking of old stuff since then. Before that it was 1986 since the last original material. Lazy bastards.

#54

Edit: clearly the wrong thread, ffs.